NEW TAIPEI TAIWAN
It’s lunchtime.
We’re hungry.
We’ve come to Jinshan Old Street,
which is the place to come if you’re looking for something delicious to eat.
We’re at this restaurant that’s right in front of a temple.
And there’s kind of two parts.
So the part behind me is where you actually order your food.
This particular place is well-known for its duck
so we’re going to select the duck,
select our other dishes,
pick them up,
and then we’re actually going to eat in a different space across the street.
So we’re just going to the other part, which is more the dining area.
Yeah.
Where we can bring our food and actually eat it.
We’ve got our duck — the specialty of the house.
And then, some stir-fried noodles to go with it,
along with some dipping sauce.
This is soy paste.
And to wash it all down, some guava juice.
Which we can’t get enough of in Taiwan.
Noodle pull.
Okay, I’m going to try the duck.
Pretty cool to see the duck being chopped up right there before you.
Yes.
And then served on your plate.
And it’s served with fresh ginger.
Oh my gosh.
That was a lot.
The typhoon rains are back.
And we’re trying to make our way through this beautiful market but it’s a little bit wet.
Thankfully we have a big umbrella today.
Lesson learned from yesterday.
Yes.
Hello!
Could we please have number 66 and a 73?
Okay.
One of the purple sweet potato and the red sweet potato.
Okay, okay. -Please.
Thank you!
Look at that — it’s a party in a cone!
We had to stop for dessert because I feel like when you’re in Taiwan, you’re not just getting dessert,
it’s really more of an experience because you get to watch how they prepare it.
And look at the final product.
It’s art.
It is absolutely beautiful.
I love watching her spinning it all up the sides.
And it just feels like a full circle moment today because we started out at breakfast
with that lovely man giving us a box of sweet potato, which this area is very well known for.
And now having our sweet potato ice cream.
And I feel like normally it’s a little unbecoming or rude to say I’m going to shovel this into my mouth
but they’ve given me a spoon shaped like a shovel
so that’s exactly what I’m going to do.
Oh it pains me to ruin it!
Like great art.
Oh it’s way softer than I thought it would be.
Look at that texture.
I’ve punctured a hole.
It’ll be worth it.
It has like a whipped…a whipped texture.
And it does taste like sweet potato, absolutely, but it is so sweet and gooey.
And then I’ve just got to know what these little colourful balls taste like.
Crunchy!
It tastes like cereal!
It’s almost like if a Fruit Loop were a ball.
Like a Corn Pop married a Fruit Loop and they had these babies.
That’s what it tastes like.
On a sweet potato bed.
In a sweet potato bed.
I’ve lost my way suddenly, what I’m saying.
You know what I mean!
♫ I’m eating in the rain ♫
♫ just eating in the rain ♫
Excellent!
Nice umbrella!
And I’m completely one-handed but I can’t…
Don’t blow away!
I’m going to Mary Poppins myself out of here!
Which I’ve always kind of dreamed of doing but not quite like this.
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